Etymologies

Examples

The movie makes sure we understand just how mundane the Queen is, showing her rising messily from a bed, sharing a quiet snark among friends, walking in her wellies and a scarf tied around her head — there’s no distant glory here, just a woman living a sometimes-difficult life.

He paused, attempting to remind himself of what it was in its original form, recalling messily a black woman (in place of the Latina woman) seeing a Marcus Garvey poster (or was it W. E. B. DuBois?) raising her arm and shouting in exultation.

Teatime really doesn't know the difference between offering you a cup of tea and stabbing you in the eye with the teaspoon, but he really only kills people (however messily) in the natural course of his duties.